The Perpetual Minigame

[mole]

Minigame, 12 players. Let's keep it simple - 10 townsfolk, 2 mafia.

Every night, the town gets two new members to replace the people killed during the course of the last round. Every time the mafia loses a member, the remaining member can recruit a new partner.

After you die, you can rejoin the queue, though if you were a mafia you can't come back into the game until your former partner is dead.

Keep score - how many rounds you survived as a mafia, and how many mafia you caught as a townie.

Continue until everyone gets bored and refuses to sign up any more.

Well, there have been stranger ideas...

[quercitron]

I like it. IN when it starts.

[mole]

I've thought about this some more, and noticed a major flaw [should have seen it earlier, but it was 1:30am when I had and posted the idea :)] - the people coming into the game will be confirmed innocents. Everyone will lynch the old players each day, and the mafia will shoot the new players because killing an old player shortens their lives.

I was looking to have a bit more freedom than that. Any ideas?

[Antrax]

Shuffle roles every day!
Antrax

[mole]

10 Townies, 2 Mafia to begin with. Every night after the first, two players are added to the game. Each new player has a 1/6 chance of being mafia, unless this would put the number of mafia above 3 (in which case there are no mafia added) or below 1 (in which case a random new player joins the mafia, and the other has a 1/2 chance of joining as well). I'm not sure if I like this idea, but it will make sure the new players get their fair share of suspicion.

In order to "win" the game, a mafia member must survive for five (number subject to change) rounds, and then elect to retire. The mafia get to recruit a replacement member, and the retiree is removed from the game (but gets a note in the list of deaths about how great he was).

[mith]

How 'bout a townie can win by catching (voting for) X Mafia scum, and retiring?

[mole]

Yeah, we need to have a way for townies to win, and I don't see any other possibilities. :)

I really don't like the random thing - but I have decided on something new. It's a secret though. :)

[Mackay]

The idea sounds awesome!

I reckon a mafia is a winner for sure when everybody else who was originally in their game when they joined, gets killed! If a scum can outlast all 11 of the others, that's pretty impressive work.

[Soothsayer]

i like - good idea

in when it starts

[ambic]

Moles been talking to me about this idea, and he convinced me it could work....

/IN

[mith]

Building on Mackay's idea, townies could win if:

a. All Mafia that are alive when they join die before they do.
b. No Mafia wins during that time.

[Polotet]

If we're signing up in here, definitely /in.

[Internet Stranger]

/in

[jeep]

I'll play, but I want to know more about how it will work.

-JEEP

[Green Crayons]

/in. i'm sure you smarter people will figure out how things will run smoothly

[Gaspode]

Hmm. Sounds interesting. /in

[jesternl]

But if the town just lynched a mafia, one of the new players will be maf (or do you plan on letting the maf have one meber for one or two nights (thatmight solve that )). One of the new players will get lynched right off, and the other the next day.
It's good way though to introduce new roles, and to mess with peoples minds

in

[cuban smoker]

You could pregenerate a list n people long, with a probability of 1 out of every 6 mafia. Then give people the roles as they sign up. By checking that the mean of the list was 1/6 mafia, some of the randomness would be eliminated.

But you might run out of mafia... or get too many. Maybe that would end the game, as the real way of winning the game... I wouldn't really be perpetual then....

/in

[Mackay]

I believe mole said that the mafia RECRUITS a new partner.

[ambic]

test

[mole]

Should have been more clear - the current system is the one in the first post. (My original idea was brought forward by cuban smoker, but I scrapped it because, as he points out, it's not perpetual enough ;). After a mafia member dies, the family recruits a new member.

There is a completely different (and IMO better) deterrant to keeping the new players alive as confirmed innocents.

Any more ideas? :)

Mackay/mith: I think it's a bit difficult for the mafia to survive long enough to eliminate all ten players. :) The five rounds is equivalent to how long this would take in a normal mafia game - after they've reached that, they can probably elect to stay in the game and try to beat the current record.

[jadesmar]

/in

[SaberKitty]

/in

[cuban smoker]

The list of signed up players has hit 12+. Maybe mole wants to start the game? Or pass it on to someone else (I know mole has been reducing the number of games he's playing in)?

quercitron
Mackay (? didn't actually say "in")
Sooth
ambic
Polotet
IS
jeep
Green Crayons
Gaspode
jesternl
CS
jadesmar

in line:
SaberKitty

[SaberKitty]

see that everyone? i

could

be mafia....1 in 6 (or something)...

-SK